Authority Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest…

— Robert A. Heinlein

You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.

— Paul Lauterbur

“Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human…

— Stephen Jay Gould

History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which…

— Thomas Kuhn

Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy…

— Blaise Cendrars

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

— Annie Besant

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of…

— Archibald Geikie

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

— Lion Feuchtwanger

We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

— Aldous Huxley

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

— James Jeans

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the…

— John William Draper

“The history of science is the back-and-forth movement of trial-and-error advances and retreats, punctuated by moments of brilliance and marred by periods of excess.”

— Robert A. Burton